Setaria viridis is a C4 grass used as a model for bioenergy feedstocks. The elongating internodes in developing S. viridis stems grow from an intercalary meristem at the base, and progress acropetally toward fully expanded cells that store sugar. During stem development and maturation, water flow is a driver of cell expansion and sugar delivery. As aquaporin proteins are implicated in regulatin...

Seedling vigor in tomatoes determines the quality and growth of fruits and total plant productivity. It is well known that the salient effects of environmental stresses appear on the internode length; the length between adjoining main stem node (henceforth called node). In this study, we develop a method for internode length estimation using image processing technology. The proposed method cons...

The bandwidth of membrane current measurements in potential-clamped Ranvier nodes is limited by the low-pass filter properties of the internodes. If about 35% of the current measuring internode is grounded via an additional electrode, the bandwidth of this internode increases by a factor of about 40. Consequently, in potential clamp experiments the measured time course of the early ionic curren...

Plant performance is significantly influenced by prevailing light and temperature conditions during plant growth and development. For plants exposed to natural fluctuations in abiotic environmental conditions it is however laborious and cumbersome to experimentally assign any contribution of individual environmental factors to plant responses. This study aimed at analyzing the interplay between...

Lignin is one of the major characteristics of plant secondary cell wall that provides structural rigidity for the cells and tissues and hydrophobicity to tracheary elements. Internode tissues of Aeluropus littoralis as a halophyte grass were sampled at different developmental stages (from the first to the fifth internodes ) and under different NaCl concentrations. The influences of NaCl and int...

Abstract. This article establishes a system of anti-bud injury in sugarcane cutting based on computer vision using MATLAB software as a development platform. The seedcane cutter box cuts twice each turn. Match the accurate shutter trigger time interval according to the rotation speed of the cutter , the transportation speed of sugarcane, in order to make the position of collected image of the t...

Brief, low energy (approximately 400 Kerg cm(-2)) red light interruption of the early dark-growth period of Zea mays L. cv F-M Cross induced inhibition of first internode elongation which was maximal whenever light interruption occurred from 2.5 to 4 days of seedling age. Two-thirds of the maximal inhibition occurred in the tissues constituting the region 0 to 2 mm below the coleoptilar node at...

A computational model, the bounded composite inverse-d architecture (BCIA), was developed to characterize signaling in small-world networks with large but bounded numbers of nodes, as in human brains. The model is based upon an N-dimensional symmetrical grid with borders, with complete local connections from each node and relatively fewer long-range connections. The length of the signaling path...